Piers pushed past the soft layer
Near Powder Springs Creek and Noses Creek, soft ground can run deep, and pier depth never adds a dollar to your price.
Foundation and Leaning Chimney Repair in Powder Springs, GA
Stoops, garage corners and brick chimneys on Powder Springs houses sink where fill or wet creek-bottom soil gives way beneath them, and Anglin's drives steel piers under them to lift them back.
Built mostly 1980 to 2009
Foundation repair in Powder Springs, from creek lots to Marietta Street
Anglin's does foundation repair in Powder Springs, GA from our Marietta office, where the family has worked since 1930. We push steel piers under settled footings and straighten brick chimneys that have tipped off the wall, and the same crew repairs the brick afterward. Call 770-422-2924 for a free estimate.
Census estimates put the median Powder Springs house at 1996, and 85% of homes in the city are detached single-family houses. About six in ten were built between 1980 and 2009, so most have spent 17 to 46 years sitting on whatever ground the builder graded for them.
The morning after a hard rain
The soggy creek side of your yard
After a hard rain, the back of your yard stays soft for days where it runs down toward the creek. On that same side of the house, a crack has started at the corner of the brick and climbs in steps toward the window. Out front, the stoop has slipped away from the threshold, and the storm door now scrapes the top step.
Wet ground and loose fill under one corner let a house drop a little at a time, usually on the side that holds water. We find out which footing moved before anyone mentions piers, and sometimes the brick turns out to be the only problem.
What the family crew brings
Family crews for soft Powder Springs ground
Four generations of Anglins have fixed Cobb County houses, and these are the habits that matter most on ground like this.
Steel and brick, one crew
Certified welders build the brackets that carry a slab corner, a garage wall or a chimney footing. The people who set the piers also close up the cracked brick at the corner, so you don't need a second contractor.
A plain answer when only the brick moved
If the veneer ties let go while the footing held, we tell you that and leave the piers out of the quote.
One price, no commission
No salesman earns a commission on your job, the price on the two-page contract holds, and a live answering service picks up after hours.
Creek bottoms and graded pads
Creek soil and graded pads under Powder Springs foundations
We checked the USDA soil survey at 304 points inside city limits. Appling, Cecil and Gwinnett soils cover about six in ten, with subsoil close to half clay that the survey rates low for shrink and swell, so water, loose fill and soft creek ground move more houses here than swelling clay. Small pockets mapped as Helena, Roanoke and a Wilkes variant swell more, but they cover fewer than one in ten sample points.
Flood-mapped soil along both creeks
About one in six sample points lands on soil the USDA maps as flooding, such as Cartecay and Roanoke in the low bands along the creeks. That ground drains slowly and stays soft after a wet spell, which leaves a nearby footing with less to bear on.
Loose fill under leveled pads
- Gentle slopes, not hillsides. Most of the city maps at 2% to 10% slopes, so the trouble is rarely a steep hillside.
- Pads leveled for the build. Builders leveled pads for slabs, crawl spaces and basements, and a stoop, garage corner or chimney footing set on poorly packed fill can settle apart from the rest of the house.
What callers tell us
- "steps are separating"
- "cracking on the inside walls and on the outside"
- "foundation has movement and is settling."
Here's how foundation repair with steel push piers carries a settled corner back up.
The gap widest at the top
Chimneys pulling off the siding in Powder Springs
A brick chimney weighs far more than the wall beside it, and its footing often sits right where the builder backfilled around the foundation. On a lot that holds water, that one footing can sink while the house stays put, and the chimney tips outward with the gap widest near the roof.
A chimney leaning in toward the house at the roofline is a different problem. It usually means the brick above the roof was set on roof decking, not on a load-bearing wall. If your older house near Marietta Street has an original solid brick chimney, a settled footing can tip the whole stack from the ground up. The direction of the lean decides the fix:
- Sunken footing: We drive steel piers beneath it and lift with hydraulic pressure while push poles set in the yard ease the chimney back against the wall.
- Anchored and repointed: Anchors through the mortar joints hold it there, and our masons repair the joints that opened as it moved.
- Lean above the roofline: We tie the upper chimney into steel beams, channel or angle iron resting on an attic bearing wall, depending on access.
- Flashing afterward: A roofer reseals the flashing when we finish, and we tell you that before work starts.
Read more about leaning chimney repair and how the direction of the lean changes the fix.
More ways we can help
Lintels, stoops and 1960s floors around Powder Springs
Past the footings and chimneys, these are the repairs that fit the houses here.
Wide garage doors
On 1990s and 2000s brick fronts, a crack climbing from the door corner usually means a sagging steel lintel, and garage lintel repair carries a lifetime warranty.
Stoops poured over backfill
Front steps built on loose fill sink and pull off the house, and we lift them back on piers without tearing them out.
Floors and crawl-space supports
About one in ten houses in the city dates from the 1960s, and we fix sagging and uneven floors there with steel supports in the crawl space. Cracked block and sinking posts get replaced with steel given roughly 2 1/2 to 3 feet to work in, and we don't do encapsulation or drainage.
Brick bowing off a sound footing
When the veneer pulls away but the foundation held, we pin it back with anchors through the mortar and warrant them for five years.
Marietta Street to the creek gauges
Powder Springs' old core, subdivisions and two creeks
Powder Springs holds about 7,000 homes in southwest Cobb County, and more than eight in ten are lived in by the people who own them. Most are 1980s to 2000s single-family houses, with a 1960s layer and a small older core downtown.
The wider 30127 ZIP
Across 30127, which reaches past city limits, 94% of homes are detached houses and the median build year also lands in 1996.
Marietta Street's older houses
The Seven Springs Museum places most of the town's historic homes along Marietta Street downtown, with others a block back on Atlanta Street. One was built before 1877 and another in 1913.
Owners voted down National Register listing for a Powder Springs Historic District in 1988, though state reviewers found it eligible. Houses that old carry original brick and mortar, and matching it is part of the job.
The 2009 flood on both creeks
Powder Springs Creek and Noses Creek both have USGS gauges inside city limits.
- Powder Springs Creek: On September 21, 2009, it peaked at 8,940 cubic feet per second, almost six times any other peak recorded there.
- Noses Creek: It reached its highest recorded level that same month.
- Three flood seasons: The city warns of flash floods in spring, summer and fall, so low lots near either creek can stay saturated more than one season a year.
Creek gauges and the old houses
- City of Powder Springs flood protection: the city's floodplain notes and its account of the 2009 flood.
- USGS gauge, Noses Creek at Powder Springs Road: current and past water levels on the creek.
- Seven Springs Museum, historic homes: the older houses on Marietta and Atlanta streets.
Three piers, not ten
Three piers on the moving side in Austell
This one comes from our owners' own account of a recent job in Austell, the next town southeast of Powder Springs on US 278. Other contractors had told the homeowner they wouldn't touch the house unless she paid for 10 piers.
- Where it had moved: we set three steel piers under the side that was settling, not all the way around the house.
- The warranty: those three piers carry our lifetime warranty.
- The damage: the crew patched up the cracking the settlement had caused.
- What happens next: she keeps an eye on the other side, and if it starts to pull, we add piers without disturbing the ones already in.
The same approach can fit a house here where one corner near wet ground is doing all the moving.
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★★★★★
“they installed 9 pieces of push piers in a property in Hiram, GA... came on schedule time and finish in one day. price was much better than other companies and scope of work was right... my property is sold . and you give me a warranty for the life of the property for stabilized this foundation.”
Noe T.
Nine push piers on a property in Hiram, done in one day
Creeks, clay, chimneys and resale
Powder Springs questions on creeks, clay and chimneys
Honest answers before you make a decision.
Still have QuestionsBefore the next soaking rain
Pier the Powder Springs corner that's moving
Someone at 770-422-2924 picks up from 8 AM to 6 PM, Monday to Saturday, and our answering service takes over at night. We'll look at the crack, the stoop or the chimney and tell you what it needs at no charge, and Regions Bank financing is available on approved credit for jobs of $3,500 and up.
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